Female student athletes of color founded Women of Color Athletics to provide a community of women who understand the challenges they face and a channel to voice their concerns.
Events at Cornell include a cat video festival; performances inspired by Taiwanese artist Tong Yang-Tze; a concert and master classes with the Chamber Society of Lincoln Center; and a celebration of Robert Moog.
Language emerges from a continual flow of creative improvisation, not biologically evolved genes or instincts, Morten H. Christiansen and a co-author argue in a new book, “The Language Game.”
Rather than making people less political, religion shapes people’s political ideas, suppressing important group differences and progressive political positions, according to sociologist Landon Schnabel.
The Tree of Life Center – with 174 units, community and retail space, and a full-service health center and dental clinic – opened on Dec. 9 in Jamaica, Queens.
Ray Jayawardhana, the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and a professor of astronomy, hopes to inspire the next generation of scientists with his first book for young children, “Child of the Universe.”
Toni Morrison, M.A. '55, and alumni architects J. Meejin Yoon and Eric Höweler are among new recipients of American Academy of Arts and Letters honors.
Derrick R. Spires, associate professor of English, was awarded the St. Louis Mercantile Library Prize for his book “The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States.”
In a conversation with President Martha E. Pollack, as part of the university’s Hatfield Lecture, Marriott president and CEO Anthony Capuano ’87 talked about how humility and listening are crucial elements of leadership.
A new research field – “environmental technology, or envirotech” – is emerging during an age when food systems span the globe, waste pollutes the natural world and natural disasters seem to have higher impacts on communities.